Take a look at each state’s most popular Fourth of July song

Take a look at each state’s most popular Fourth of July song

Struggling to make a Fourth of July playlist for your barbecue? Never fear: Spotify has put together a map showing each state’s most distinctive Fourth of July song.

The music-streaming company looked at which traditionally “American” songs get queued up more often on the Fourth of July in each state than on any other day.

Unsurprisingly, Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA” was the top song in 22 states, including Nevada.

Miley Cyrus’ “Party in the USA” made a showing in Maine, New Hampshire and North Dakota. Meanwhile, all the Neil Young fans in the nation seem to be concentrated in South Dakota, which favored “Rockin’ the Free World.”

Only two states went with “The Star-Spangled Banner”: Michigan, where Lee Greenwood’s version of the national anthem reigns supreme, and Colorado, which favors the version by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

What’s confusing about the map is the presence of two songs commonly misunderstood to be patriotic: Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the U.S.A.” and Lenny Kravitz’s “American Women.”

“Born in the U.S.A.” was written in protest of the Vietnam War, and “American Women was written to poke fun at the U.S.

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